Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in the Stanford/Elsevier 2026 list
The Stanford/Elsevier list covers the top 2% most-cited scientists in each subfield. These are the people from this institution on at least one of its two rankings: career-long and single-year (citations from 2025).
13
researchers on the list
1,049
rank in United States
3,749
rank worldwide, of 38,384
Ranks by number of people on the list; we calculate them from the same data.
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleeman, James I. | Cardiovascular System & Hematology | 274 / 249,410 | 478 / 249,410 |
| Elixhauser, Anne | Health Policy & Services | 137 / 23,941 | 435 / 23,941 |
| Selden, Thomas M. | Health Policy & Services | 176 / 23,941 | 294 / 23,941 |
| Umscheid, C. A. | General & Internal Medicine | 1,449 / 360,081 | 1,104 / 360,081 |
| Fleishman, John A. | Health Policy & Services | 192 / 23,941 | — |
| Brach, Cindy | Health Policy & Services | — | 197 / 23,941 |
| Hellinger, Fred Joseph | Health Policy & Services | 308 / 23,941 | — |
| Kirby, James B. | Health Policy & Services | 508 / 23,941 | 255 / 23,941 |
| Decker, Sandra L. | Health Policy & Services | 339 / 23,941 | — |
| Zuvekas, Samuel H. | Health Policy & Services | 359 / 23,941 | — |
| Rhodes, Karin Verlaine | Emergency & Critical Care Medicine | 475 / 44,281 | 879 / 44,281 |
| Spector, William D. | Health Policy & Services | 451 / 23,941 | — |
| Meyers, David S. | General & Internal Medicine | 7,347 / 360,081 | — |
Source: Ioannidis JPA, Elsevier (2026). August 2026 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". Mendeley Data, version 9. Licence CC BY-NC 3.0. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9
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